Vidby
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Browser video-translation and transcription service with 100+ languages.
Best for creators dubbing and subtitling videos across many languages in a browser. Pricing: per-minute pricing.
What it is
Vidby is a Swiss browser transcription + dubbing platform pitched at creators and enterprises needing 100+ language coverage.
Watch out for: Audio uploaded; per-minute price escalates with human review tier.
Install / use
Go to Vidby vidby.comWhat people actually do with Vidby-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Wire it into ZapierMake.comAmazon S3SlackGoogle DriveEmergent
Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 100 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Vidby vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Vidby | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 100 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Vidby
How much does Vidby cost?
Vidby is a paid product — published pricing: per-minute pricing. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Vidby work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Vidby runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.
How do I get started with Vidby?
There is nothing to install — Vidby is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Vidby support?
Vidby lists 100 languages. That is the Whisper-family multilingual set, so quality varies by language — English and the large European languages are strongest.
What are the limitations of Vidby?
Audio uploaded; per-minute price escalates with human review tier.
Who is Vidby best for?
Creators dubbing and subtitling videos across many languages in a browser.
Is Vidby open source?
No. Vidby is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Is there a Vidby desktop app?
No — Vidby is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
What kind of tool is Vidby?
In this directory Vidby is filed under web app, transcription, translation as a product.
What are the alternatives to Vidby?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/vidby-web-alternatives comparing Vidby with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Vidby-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Vidby?
Vidby is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Vidby?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Vidby category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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